Meaning

(informal, chiefly used as a prefix) Around the middle part..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal, chiefly used as a prefix) Around the middle part.
2. (linguistics, of a vowel) Somewhat or approximately mid; somewhere between the high and the low.

Example Sentences

I dropped out of high school to smoke cones and play bass guitar, which was pretty great for a decade or so. I got pretty excellent at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1, 2, and 3. Then in my middish-20s I very accidentally fell into a university preparation program at the University of Newcastle.

“I can tell you one story—of a kind of middish-level executive at NBC who made an advance that was inappropriate. And I just felt so sorry for him,” Pauley confided with a sheepish smile, without identifying the miscreant.

Chuck Bowden once brought me a beguiling, befuddling manuscript. It was thick, knotty, printed in one of those horrific fonts that the early generations of Mac computers offered back in the middish '80s.

The value of the Latin letter O was for a virtual certainty a mid, back, rounded vowel. If therefore this letter is used to render a vowel in a previously unwritten (ancient) language, […] it is to be inferred that the phoneme in question was probably some kind of middish, backish, rounded vowel, or more accurately, included such phones prominently in its allophonic range.

When Should You Use Middish?

Use middish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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